Problem - what is it?

I told you that I write about different kinds of problems that people may face in their daily life or in some point of their life. Before writing about some twister, I'm asking what the word "problem" means, really?

I found one article that presents different kinds of ways of how to handle with problems. The beginning of that article is interesting. It made me think about the meaning of a problem again and in a different kind of perspective. According to the writer of the article "Einstein is quoted as having said that if he had one hour to save the world he would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem and only five minutes finding the solution". That utterance got my attention, because I have usually difficulties to find a solution to my problems, not defining them. On the other hand, I understand the point of Einstein and I think that people are not using their time enough to defining the knot before finding a solution to it. Is that the reason why finding the solution is sometimes so hard? Don't we pay attention enough to defining the problem? But what means "defining the problem"? In the article are some tips how to qualify the problem but have you tried those techniques? Have they worked?

I think that the article gives good tips for a single person of finding the solution of the problem. Those tips may help finding the solution to a small as well as to a big twister. One thing that is important is the advice of an other person. I think that with the help and wisdom of someone else solving the twister is easier than on your own. If you can't define the knot and find the solution to it when you are looking it from different kinds of perspectives and gathering the facts of it, then the help of the other person is valuable.

So, what means the word "problem"? It means a matter or a situation that is unwelcome or detrimental and needing to be dealt with and overcome. It is also defined as a thing that is difficult to reach. (Oxford Dictionaries 2014.)